War: How Conflict Shaped Us - Margaret MacMillan (2020)
This book is a survey of the effects of war on human society....
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The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections - V.S. Naipual (1987)
Over the course of five sections, The Enigma of Arrival draws an autobiographical portrait of an unnamed narrator that strongly resembles the author. Like Naipaul, the narrator is ethnically Hindu, raised in Trinidad, and schooled in England....